| Lemma | adaptation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | A new form (such as 'chorine'), which is based on a traditional form (chorus, chorus-girl), but departs from it in the direction of a series of semantically related forms ('chlorine', 'colleen', 'Pauline', etc., including especially 'actorine'), is said to originate by 'adaptation'. After complete 'adaptation', the loan-word is subject to the same analogies as any similar native word. Some adaptations are less far-fetched and merely produce a new form which agrees better with semantically related forms. |